WoW Classic - World Bosses and PvP Honor System Available
Originally Posted by blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Get ready to put your skills to the test in WoW Classic. The PvP Honor system and world raid bosses Lord Kazzak and Azuregos are now available.

Lord Kazzak
Gather a group of your best trackers and fighters to venture into the Blasted Lands. Lord Kazzak resides deep in the Tainted Scar and patrols the area, ready to smite all who dare cross his path. Prepare yourselves for a fast and furious battle against time and watch out for his Shadow Bolt Volley, which causes massive amounts of raid-wide damage.

Location: Tainted Scar—Blasted Lands
Suggested Level: 60
Players Suggested: 40
Associated Quests: Priest—While players have a small chance to get the The Eye of Shadow as a random drop from elite demons in the world, Lord Kazzak is guaranteed to drop it. Following the quest, The Balance of Light and Shadow to its completion will reward the weapons Benediction or Anathema.

Azuregos
A member of the Blue Dragonflight, Azuregos makes his home in Azshara, guarding the magical artifacts left behind there. You’ll want to gather a group of comrades-at-arms to withstand his frosty reception and lay claim to the items he protects. To the victors go the spoils, and for some Hunters this means laying claim to the Ancient Sinew Wrapped Lamina. This item has a low chance to drop on elite blue dragons, but is a guaranteed item drop from Azuregos.

Location: Azshara
Suggested Level: 60
Players Suggested: 40


PvP Honor System
The PvP Honor system has arrived in WoW Classic, opening the way for players to climb the ranks and earn PvP rewards.

Climbing the Ladder
Facing enemies who are within 10 levels of your own character and defeating them will earn you Honorable Kills. These Honorable Kills will help you advance in the PvP system and unlock access to a variety of rewards, such as a PvP trinket, cloak, potions, and more.

Not all Honorable Kills are valued the same, however. Killing the same enemy multiple times will result in a decreasing amount of Honor gained until they aren’t worth anything more through the end of the day, when the system resets the diminishing returns.

Diminishing Returns from repeated kills on a single target are as follows:

  • 1st: 100% of Honor
  • 2nd: 75% of Honor
  • 3rd: 50% of Honor
  • 4th: 25% of Honor
  • 5th (and beyond): 0% Honor

Diminishing Returns also apply to killing faction leaders.

Honorable Kill values are also weighted by the defeated player’s own rank and level. You’ll earn more Contribution Points by defeating players who have more PvP experience under their belt and have reached a higher rank than by defeating players who are new to the battlefield. Each week your rank will be updated based on your activity relative to the other members of your faction, but climbing to the top won’t be easy—it will take regular participation to maintain or increase your rank.

You can also gain a large number of Honor by killing city faction leaders in Darnassus, Ironforge, Orgrimmar, Stormwind, Thunder Bluff, and the Undercity. Once Battlegrounds are available in WoW Classic, these will also provide Honor.

Falling From Grace
You will be given Dishonorable Kills for killing civilian NPCs which immediately impacts your Honor rating. Every dishonorable kill costs you some of the honor that you’ve earned in previous weeks, making it difficult to reach the higher ranks as long as you have any dishonorable kills counted on your record at all. These will appear in the Honor tab immediately.

Tracking Your Meteoric Rise


You can check your status in the character information window (C) in the Honor tab. This shows your current rank as well as your honorable kills for the current day, the previous day, the week, the previous week, and over your character’s lifetime.

There are 14 ranks, and each rank provides access to new rewards. You’ll need to head over to the Officer’s Barracks in Stormwind or Orgrimmar to purchase your new items.

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Horde




Epic new challenges await—happy hunting!
This article was originally published in forum thread: WoW Classic - World Bosses and PvP Honor System Available started by Stoy View original post
Comments 32 Comments
  1. skumnasty's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
    Considering my friends pestered me to roll on a PvP realm..... bye classic. I'm out at this point.
    Last night was a nightmare. Took me somewhere between 6-8 revives to get from Thorium Point to MC entrance. The path was camped by probably 40 or more horde patrolling and picking up every alliance.

    I'm normally all for PVP, but with the faction imbalance on my realm and the way the ranks are structured I'm not liking it at all. I'm much rather a MMR based system opposed to a farming system, but I do get that farming was the name of the game for classic. It just isn't for me.

    Here's to hoping the patrolling horde raids die down fairly soon...
  1. Saverem's Avatar
    Does honor degrade? As in, if I take a week off for vacation will I drop ranks?
  1. relaxok's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Saverem View Post
    Does honor degrade? As in, if I take a week off for vacation will I drop ranks?
    Yes, but it doesn't decay very fast.

    You can find the calculations online somewhere..
  1. Mantra01's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Nelle View Post
    I did the climb to Grand Marshal back in Vanilla - NeverAgain!

    My sympathy to anyone who will attempt this, especially on servers where the top 10 honorgainers aren't organized at all.
    It will be brutal and even dedicated grinders will be dead and stranded on rank 12.

    If I recall right you need atleast top3 honor on your faction for a few weeks to actually get to 14.
    lol same, some friends were like you going to play vanilla and get it again and i was like hell no lol
  1. Teerack's Avatar
    I love how the Lord Kazzak just shines a big light on the fact its been so many months and blizzard never patched and fixed the teleport to the blasted lands for the horde and there is just no easy way for the horde to get there anymore. I feel embarrassed for blizzard.
  1. lollerlaban's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Vasti View Post
    Can Paladins still solo Kazzak (after a very long time of saving up the reck-bomb)?
    Of course not. It was fixed days after the exploit was done, it's capped now
  1. Will's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Jettisawn View Post
    60,000 that's it? I use to have to get way way way MORE than that just to get rank 11.
    yeah well if you enjoyed the old grind, this new one'll be hell with the sheer number of participants.
  1. relaxok's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Jettisawn View Post
    60,000 that's it? I use to have to get way way way MORE than that just to get rank 11.
    it’s 60,000 rating points not honorable kills.

    Though for reference i got rank 11 on my warrior and only had 45,000 HKs or so
  1. Buiak101's Avatar
    PVP Honor System ------- "Classic" WOW...
  1. Bakis's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by BoltBlaster View Post
    Without battlegrounds its a shit fest on PvP servers for one faction. PvP servers aren't balanced, so this phase results in one faction corpse camping other faction. Players won't be able to play their level 60 characters and won't be able to level alts, so they'll either quit or reroll on PvE server, but most likely quit. This will lead to further imbalance and more players leaving.

    This phase will do more damage to Classic than anything else. Battlegrounds are needed ASAP.
    In a sense yes but since BLZ rushed DM I feel confident they will rush the first BGs too.
    I dont like that they rush but for BGs it is vital, it is silly to think this level of wpvp will keep up but nevertheless realms with borked faction balance will get hurt to a varying degree, at worst become even more fucked up by the smaller faction having even more rerolling(migrating) players.
  1. twothe's Avatar
    To those who complain about the ganking on a PvP server: you explicitly selected a server with the only difference that people can gank you at any time (almost) anywhere. So what did you expect what would happen?!
  1. Psygon's Avatar
    Turn down particle effects if you join a TM v SS PVP raid.

    It helps!

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